I'm having a problem my Autocad is very slow my MB unibody 2.4 Ghz, 4Gibs RAM allocated to my Win 7 parallels desktop 5. What are the Optinal setting to configure in ACA for MAC ?
im a junior in high school and i us auto cad 2010. i am about to get a laptop for now and for college. i was planning to get a vaio or a macbook pro. which one do u think i should buy. does autocad work well on a mac with out a problem?
I hope you didnt get a macbook yet. They will not perform as well when it comes to cad compared to the W series Thinkpad from Lenovo. You should use a machine with ATi Firepro graphics or Nvidia Quadro graphics cards it will handle serious CAD much better than any macbook can. Unless macbook is going to be equipped with one of those cards i highly suggest you reconsider.
I have a new MBP - 2.8 Ghz, 8 Gigs RAM with 4 Gigs allocated to my Win7 VM - Installed ACA 2010 64x but it does not seem to be running correctly. In just a new drawing, the crosshairs jitter and catch, and when I mouse over the ribbon along the top, segments of the ribbon flicker and disappear. I am wondering if this is a graphics card setting? The installed card is NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT. What are the optimal settings to configure in ACA?
from what I've seen, it runs a bit slow or clunky when running within a virtual OS..like VMware or Parallels...not too much you can do about it settings wise. My suggestion would be to use BootCamp and setup a Win7 installation. I am currently using ACA that way thru BootCamp and it runs perfectly...
If you use VMWare Fusion you can get even better performance than Parallels. VMWare supports 3-D acceleration from the Video Card's GPU, parallels does not.
I have used both Parallels and VMWare, and finally junked Parallels because VMWare was much better all around.
So you can run CAD on Mac? uuhhh
MegaXJay 1 year ago
lol at the music!
Salvy102 1 year ago
I'm having a problem my Autocad is very slow my MB unibody 2.4 Ghz, 4Gibs RAM allocated to my Win 7 parallels desktop 5. What are the Optinal setting to configure in ACA for MAC ?
kiluha84 1 year ago
wtf is with the music
hockeycrazed999 1 year ago
Do you recommend using VMware Fusion with 3D acceleration for AutoCAD, or using Boot Camp?
MyOldMacintosh 1 year ago
@MyOldMacintosh I've just used BOOTCAMP and thus far have not had any complaints.
RenderingsToTheMAX 1 year ago
@RenderingsToTheMAX
Thanks for fast reply
MyOldMacintosh 1 year ago
im a junior in high school and i us auto cad 2010. i am about to get a laptop for now and for college. i was planning to get a vaio or a macbook pro. which one do u think i should buy. does autocad work well on a mac with out a problem?
2012Assassin 2 years ago
I hope you didnt get a macbook yet. They will not perform as well when it comes to cad compared to the W series Thinkpad from Lenovo. You should use a machine with ATi Firepro graphics or Nvidia Quadro graphics cards it will handle serious CAD much better than any macbook can. Unless macbook is going to be equipped with one of those cards i highly suggest you reconsider.
factionxvt408x 2 years ago
@2012Assassin i have the same problem.... but am a junior in arch uni :S having a problem chosing which laptop to go with :@ if any one can help
BraveZombie 2 years ago
I have a new MBP - 2.8 Ghz, 8 Gigs RAM with 4 Gigs allocated to my Win7 VM - Installed ACA 2010 64x but it does not seem to be running correctly. In just a new drawing, the crosshairs jitter and catch, and when I mouse over the ribbon along the top, segments of the ribbon flicker and disappear. I am wondering if this is a graphics card setting? The installed card is NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT. What are the optimal settings to configure in ACA?
abbymeuser 2 years ago
from what I've seen, it runs a bit slow or clunky when running within a virtual OS..like VMware or Parallels...not too much you can do about it settings wise. My suggestion would be to use BootCamp and setup a Win7 installation. I am currently using ACA that way thru BootCamp and it runs perfectly...
RenderingsToTheMAX 2 years ago
If you use VMWare Fusion you can get even better performance than Parallels. VMWare supports 3-D acceleration from the Video Card's GPU, parallels does not.
I have used both Parallels and VMWare, and finally junked Parallels because VMWare was much better all around.
YMMV
metaforest 2 years ago
Thanks for the tip! I'll have to try that out, haven't yet...all I have tried aside from Parallels is Crossover...which isn't so great either.
RenderingsToTheMAX 2 years ago
do you have to start windows or can you just load AutoCAD and then it only loads what it needs to run?
pmolczan 2 years ago
you run Parallels inside of Mac OSX...then all the PC programs can run within OSX. It's not like "BootCamp" where you boot up into Windows.
RenderingsToTheMAX 2 years ago
What program is this? This is a DREAM come true!
pmolczan 2 years ago
used Parallels 4.0 to run all the PC apps and Vista on the Mac. It works great...
RenderingsToTheMAX 2 years ago